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Hi everyone and welcome to the Room 6 Blogger Page

Room6 is well on their way with their learning, classroom routines and expectations. The following is a brief summary of what we have planned for the rest of this term.

What’s happening in Term1

Numeracy

In Room6 we will focus on Place Value, Addition, Subtraction and basic facts for the first 5 weeks of term 1 before starting Statistics in the second half of the term.  

Literacy

Students will focus on punctuation and proofreading our work. Some students will work with Mrs Val Millington and her extension writing programme.

PE

We will be focusing on swimming and golf for the first few weeks of school and then we will moving on to small ball skills (throwing, catching and hitting).

Library

Room6 will be using the Library on Tuesday afternoons. Your child should have a range of reading materials, e.g. quick reads (magazines), easy reads (comics, joke books etc) and at least one fiction and one non-fiction chapter book which they need to read at school and at home.

Inquiry

Students are investigating: How to keep ourselves safe on the internet by completing Digital Passport Missions.

General

·        Students are required to bring along an old adult size shirt or T shirt to wear while painting or dying to protect their clothes. These shirts can remain in class in the arts cupboards for when students need them.

·        All students will need a book bag to hang at the back of their seat to keep all their work together as there will be lots of moving around the class and working at different work stations.

Swimming

Please be reminded of the following dates for swimming this year:

Date	Time	Venue
17 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
20 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
24 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
27 February 2015	11am – 12pm	St Peters
3 March 2015	11am – 12pm Water Safety	St Peters
11 March 2015	School Swimming Sports 11am-2:30pm	TA Pools

Looking forward to working with you and your child as the year progresses. If you have any concerns regarding your child’s learning, please feel free to contact the office to arrange an appointment to meet with me or contact me via email: bmitchell@ohaupo.school.nz

If I have any concerns about your child’s progress in class I will make contact with you.

Kind regards

Bruce Mitchell

Room 6 Class Teacher